Noob questions - should I use my IGP?

eddyc · 3 Nov 2011 at 13:11

Hi Guys,

I have been using the FAH GPU Tracker V2 for the last couple of weeks on and off (mainly when it gets cold in my room). But I have only been using my CPU to crunch.

I don't have a graphics card because I'm not really a gamer but I do have an IGP in my mobo. It is an ATI Radeon HD 4200.

Is there anyway of using that for folding? Or am I in danger of overheating it? It just has the standard passive heatsink on it...

Frozennova · 3 Nov 2011 at 13:49

You wont be able to run a FAH client on the IGP IIRC. It wouldnt perform particularly well if you could anyway.

eddyc · 3 Nov 2011 at 16:13

Oh well. Thought it was worth a try. Thanks for the help.

BaBa · 4 Nov 2011 at 15:33

Folding on any ati card or igp does not give good performance

A boinc project like Collatz conjecture or Moo! wrapper might work ok, worth a try we have teams for both

eddyc · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:50

BaBa said:
Folding on any ati card or igp does not give good performance

Interesting. Is it just to do with how the software is set up or is it down to the type of calculations that are required for folding?

BaBa said:
A boinc project like Collatz conjecture or Moo! wrapper might work ok, worth a try we have teams for both

Thanks. I'll have a look at those. I think I do have a really old ATI card somewhere that I could dig out. Might be slightly better than the IGP...

Snapshot · 8 Nov 2011 at 07:15

eddyc said:
Interesting. Is it just to do with how the software is set up or is it down to the type of calculations that are required for folding?

Probably both. The ATI cards are harder to program for due to the way the GPU works and, as Stanford is sponsored by Nvidia, they don't seem to put as much effort into ATI.